Events in September 2008
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Sep. 1
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Japan’s Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda resigns after being at the helm for about a year. |
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More than 100 people are killed in two days of clashes between Shia and Sunni tribes in the Kurram tribal agency on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. |
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Nearly 2 million people flee the Gulf of Mexico coast as Hurricane Gustav lashes Louisiana. |
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Sep. 2
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Thailand’s Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej proclaims a state of Emergency in Bangkok to quell a week-long street rebellion against his rule. |
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Sep. 5
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Angolans cast votes in general elections. |
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Sep. 6
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The Nuclear Suppliers Group lifts its 16-year-old embargo on nuclear commerce with India after three days of roller-coaster negotiations in the Austrian capital Vienna. |
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Asif Ali Zardari is elected Pakistan President. |
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Sep. 7
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The Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper announces plan to hold snap parliamentary elections. |
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Sep. 8
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Hurricane Ike pounds Cuba as 90,000 flee to shelters. |
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Sep. 9
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Asif Ali Zardari is sworn in Pakistan President. |
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The Constitutional Court in Bangkok disqualifies Thailand’s Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej. |
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Russia establishes diplomatic ties with Abkhazia and South Ossetia. |
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The LTTE launches an air raid on the Sri Lankan Air Force station in Vavuniya. |
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Sep. 10
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The biggest physics experiment in history, Large Hadron Collider tests begin under the aegis of the European Organization for Nuclear Research on the French-Swiss border. |
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Fuel assurances contained in 123 Agreement with India not binding, declares the U.S. President George W. Bush in a message to the Congress. |
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Sep. 11
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The former Bangladesh Prime Minister Khaleda Zia is released from jail after being held a year earlier on graft charges. |
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Sep. 12
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Seventeen persons are killed and 135 people injured as a commuter train smashes into a freight train in Los Angeles. |
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Sep. 13
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Russia withdraws all its forces from western Georgia. |
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Hurricane Ike lashes Texas bringing a monster ocean surge, knocking out power and flooding coastal areas. |
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Sep. 14
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At least 88 persons are killed after a Russian plane crashes on the outskirts of Perm in Ural mountains while preparing to land. |
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Thailand’s acting Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat lifts Bangkok emergency. |
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Sep. 15
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Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe and the opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai sign a power-sharing deal in Harare. |
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Major U.S. investment bank Lehman Brothers Holdings files for bankruptcy protection, while the world’s largest retail brokerage Merrill Lynch agrees to be taken over by Bank of America. |
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Sep. 16
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Asian stock markets suffer heavy losses after the collapse of Lehman Brothers. |
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Sep. 17
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The U.S. Federal Reserve bails out insurance firm American International Group offering a $85-billion package, staving off a financial meltdown. |
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Thailand’s acting Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat is elected to the top post by the House of Representatives in Bangkok. |
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At least 16 persons are killed following a car bomb attack on the U.S. Embassy in the Yemeni capital Sana’a. |
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Australia issues licence allowing scientists to create cloned human embryos. |
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Sep. 18
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Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni wins leadership primary of the ruling Kadima party. |
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The Large Hadron Collider is shut down by the CERN for two months due to a mechanical failure. |
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Sep. 19
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U.S. stock markets stage a huge rally. Short selling or betting against financial stocks is banned temporarily. |
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Sep. 20
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At least 60 persons, including the Czech envoy Ivo Zdarek are killed and 266 injured following a massive blast outside the Marriott hotel in Islamabad triggered by an explosives-laden truck. |
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Sep. 21
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At least 43 persons are killed and 88 injured in a night club fire in south China’s Shenzhen city. |
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South African President Thabo Mbeki resigns. |
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The Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert quits office. |
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Global financial services provider Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs get U.S. Federal Reserve Board nod to turn bank holding companies. |
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Sep. 23
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“Like slavery and piracy, terrorism has no place in the modern world,” says the U.S. President George W.Bush in his farewell speech to the U.N. General Assembly. |
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Matti Juhani Saari opens fire killing nine persons at the Kanhajoki School of Hospitality in western Finland before turning the weapon on himself. |
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Win Tin (78) Myanmar’s longest-serving political prisoner is freed from Insein Prison after 19 years behind bars. |
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Sep. 24
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Taro Aso takes charge as Japan’s Prime Minister. Hirofumi Nakasone is named Foreign Minister and Yasukazu Hamada becomes Defence Minister. |
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China and Venezuela sign an oil cooperation deal and several economic pacts. |
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Sep. 25
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India and Pakistan agree to begin cross-LoC trade from October 21, 2008 following talks between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President Asif Ali Zardari in New York on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly. Wagah-Atari Border, Munabao-Khokrapar rail link to be thrown open for trade. |
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China launches Shenzhou-7 its third manned spacecraft with three taikonauts on board from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in Gansu province. |
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Sep. 24
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Washington Mutual Inc., one of the largest U.S. banks collapses. |
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Sep. 26
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The Prime Minister Manmohan Singh lauds the U.S. President George W.Bush’s personal role in the “massive transformation” of the India-U.S. ties centred on the nuclear agreement. |
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Swiss adventurer Yves Rossy makes history by flying across the English Channel from France using a jet-powered wing. |
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Sep. 27
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Taikonaut Zhai Zhigang starts China’s first spacewalk. |
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Seventeen persons are killed in a massive bomb blast in Syrian capital Damascus. |
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The U.S. House of Representatives passes the India-U.S. civilian nuclear deal. |
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Sep. 28
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The Shenzhou-7 space shuttle with three taikonauts aboard lands safely at Siziwang Banner in Inner Mongolia in China after a 68-hour flight including a 25-minute spacewalk. |
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Austria’s far-Right notches up big gains in snap parliamentary polls for electing a House for a five-year term for the first time. |
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Malalai Kakar, head of Kandahar’s department of crimes against women, is shot dead by Taliban gunmen in front of her house. |
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The U.S. seals an unprecedented $ 700 billion Wall Street bailout package. |
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Sep. 29
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The U.S. House of Representatives defeats a $ 700 billion emergency bailout package to bolster the financial industry. The Asian and European bourses tumble. |
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The ninth India-Euruopean Union summit in Marseille, France welcomes India’s emergence out of the nuclear denial regime. |
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At least 25 persons are killed as the LTTE bombs a military base in Vavuniya in coordination with a ground attack by “Black Tiger” suicide fighters. |
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Sep. 30
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India and France sign a framework agreement for civil nuclear cooperation, after talks between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President Nicolas Sarkozy in Paris. |
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Gurkhas win right to settle in Britain after a landmark judgment by the High Court. |
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